Knitting and social media does it get better, yes, when you use different colored yarn. However, Hilary Grant is working with Distance Lab on Social Knitworking, taking our conversations and turning them into an ugly scarf that nobody would wear.

“The intention is to provide a way to celebrate our online friendships by taking an abstract overview of our everyday conversations and drawing upon conversational and syntactical patterns to create a knitted keepsake.” Hilary Grant, Stefan Agamanolis

How it works: A computer program analyzes your social interactions (IMs and Emails). They take those conversations and find the patterns such as frequently used phrases or sentiments, emotional characteristics, and other features. Then the program outputs an abstract knitting pattern that is downloaded into a computer-controlled knitting machine where it can be knitted as a simple piece of clothing or accessory.
It would be nice if you could add your twitter, facebook, etc. and have a pattern that you could knit by hand.
Kari Girarde